Item 01: Basil Bruce Williamson war narrative, 13 August 1914-6 January 1915 - Page 20

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up to everythink. We get plenty of fruits, and we have a good feed. Their was the sending off Col Holmes and receiving the new governer and he sails this day January 6th 1915 for Sydney and we sail later.
(Good bye Rabaul. New Britan)

AEI.
By Del M.Coy
No. 1
She faced no battle flame, she hear no German gun;
The ships without a name the luckless AEI
Yet were her sailors lives no less for empire lost,
And mother sweethearts, wives must pay, the bitter cost
Australia's warships sweep the broad Pacific main
But one from out the deep will never rise again
Yet we shall not forget through all the years that run
The fate that she has met Goodby to AEI

No 2
But in their iron cell they sank beneath the waves
Untouched by shot or shell they drifted to the graves